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Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. There are hundreds of different encoding systems for mapping characters to numbers, but Unicode promises a single mapping. Unicode enables a single software product or website to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages and countries without re-engineering. It's no wonder that industry giants like Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM andMicrosoft have all adopted Unicode.
Containing everything you need to understand Unicode, this comprehensive reference from O'Reilly takes you on a detailed guide through the complex character world. For starters, it explains how to identify and classify characters - whether they're common, uncommon, or exotic. It then shows you how to type them, utilize their properties, and process character data in a robust manner.
The book is broken up into three distinct parts. The first few chapters provide you with a tutorial presentation of Unicode and character data. It gives you a firm grasp of the terminology you need to reference various components, including character sets, fonts and encodings, glyphs and character repertoires.
The middle section offers more detailed information about using Unicode and other character codes. It explains the principles and methods of defining character codes, describes some of the widely used codes, and presents code conversion techniques. It also discusses properties of characters, collation and sorting, line breaking rules and Unicode encodings. The final four chapters cover more advanced material, such as programming to support Unicode.
You simply can't afford to be without the nuggets of valuable information detailed in Unicode Explained.
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Worth the buy, but not the size.
This is much more than a book about Unicode. Korpela goes further, explaining about code pages, writing systems, language differences, encoding, implementation issues, programming. Even after many years in this business, there was much that was new to me.
I do have a criticism, however: the book is from 2006 and as it contains a great deal of information about particular programs and operating systems, and URLs to web resources, some of this information quickly became stale. There is an online site which is supposed to contain updates and errata, but it is not being updated.
That aside, I would highly recommend this book if you need to work with languages on computers.
I had a tough technical problem to solve and didn't even have the correct vocabulary to describe it.
Of the three books I bought to help, this is the one I turned to most frequently.
The historical element is interesting, but the technical sections really aid understanding the various flavours of unicode, and what benefits can be had from a successful implementation.
This is now part of my reference library for technical issues, and I'm frequently being asked to contribute to character-based discussions, due to my new found understanding and the assistance I can now offer.
Well worth the time and effort to read it.
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